SF News Christmas Eve Around the Bay: Another PG&E Substation Fire and Outage in the South Bay, Power Now Restored A confused Trump Justice Department just “found” a million more Epstein documents; ICE agents shot two people in Maryland; and things go from bad to worse for PG&E as another substation fire knocks out power for 21,000.
SF News PG&E, Now In Full Crisis Mode, Offering $200 Credits to SF Residents, $2500 to Businesses for Weekend Outage Utility provider PG&E is hoping you’ll forget about this weekend’s three-day power outage with a $200 credit for residential customers and a $2,500 credit for businesses, though some businesses say they lost ten times that much.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Also Had a Huge Outage on December 20 in 2003, Starting at the Same PG&E Substation If you bought gas from any Bay Area 7-Elevens recently, make sure you weren't charged 100 times what you paid; the SF immigration court is down to four judges from 21; and a third of the city also lost power 22 years ago, also on a Saturday, December 20.
SF News Waymos Freeze in Place, Snarl Traffic En Masse During Saturday’s Citywide Power Outage Amid Saturday’s PG&E outage, social media was flooded with posts showing dozens of confused Waymos pausing at intersections as they fruitlessly attempted to contact central command, causing frazzled humans to navigate around them, which led to a temporary halt in service.
SF News Saturday Links: PG&E Launches $50M Relief Program to Help Customers with Overdue Bills Giants legend Tim Lincecum was spotted in SF’s Noe Valley this week; eight people were shot early Saturday at a Philadelphia bar — two are in critical condition; and PG&E is helping customers catch up with overdue bills with a $50 million relief initiative.
SF News Here We Go Again — PG&E Says First Power Shutoffs of Fire Season ‘Likely’ This Weekend A pretty wide net of PG&E customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties could see their first wildfire-related PG&E power shutoff of the season as early as Thursday, thanks to this weekend’s looming high winds and dry conditions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Online System ‘Upgrade’ Knocks Untold Number of Customers Out of Their Accounts Trump signed his measure today blocking California’s electric vehicle mandate; Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has of course been delayed again; and PG&E’s so-called “upgrade” of their online system has locked a ton of customers out of their accounts.
SF News Visitacion Valley Shooting Leaves One Injured, and It May Have Been a PG&E Contractor A shooting just before 1 pm some two blocks from McLaren Bike Park in Visitacion Valley has left one person hospitalized, and PG&E is saying that the victim may have been one of their contractors.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Red Flag Warnings and Possible Power Shut-Offs Loom This Week BART Police arrested a suspect in Saturday’s 24th Street station stabbing; two SF Walgreens stores suffered smash-and-grabs within an hour of each other; and high winds could prompt some Bay Area PG&E power shut-offs this week.
SF News PG&E Has Announced Power Shutoffs in Five Bay Area Counties for Monday And Tuesday, Citing Fire Risk PG&E has announced that they might shutoff power to five Bay Area counties on Monday and Tuesday to reduce fire risk, in response to weather conditions forecasted to be both extremely hot and very windy, according to their website.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Gets the Green Light to Hike Your Rates Yet Again The Transamerica Pyramid had its grand reopening Thursday; the hot dog vendor who SFPD roughed up in an arrest now says she’s pregnant; and PG&E will be raising your rates again for the third time in barely a year.
SF News Dog Shelter Muttville Gets Power Shut Off by PG&E, Dogs Reportedly Being Euthanized Because of It If you need another bone to pick with PG&E, they cut off the power for the beloved senior dog rescue operation Muttville, and the disruption in electricity is apparently resulting in elder dogs being euthanized instead of getting a chance at a new home.
SF News Possible PG&E Power Shut-Offs Loom in North Bay, East Bay as Major Heat Wave Approaches It’s now officially PG&E power outage season again as the impending heat dome rolls in, with public safety power shutoffs possible this week for eight NorCal counties, including Napa County and Solano County.
SF News The Latest Barrier to New Bay Area Housing? PG&E Equipment Delays There are hundreds of otherwise ready-to-go housing units just plain sitting vacant across the Bay Area, because PG&E is backlogged on the electrical components needed to connect these units to their power grid.
SF News San Jose Man Who Lived In Meth Lab House Charged By Feds For Intentionally Bombing Two PG&E Transformers Thousands of San Jose residents lost power when PG&E transformers blew up this past December and January, and the feds are charging a 36-year-old man for doing the deed. Oh, and he was also allegedly running a meth lab.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Wants to Jack Your Rates Up By 22% Gavin Newsom is the latest U.S. politician heading to Israel, it’s a surreal scene inside that Folsom Street Target that closes Saturday, and PG&E is asking permission to lay a 22% rate increase on us.
SF News Weekend Heat Wave Caused More Than 11,000 Bay Area Households To Lose Power Sunday Though Sunday was cooler than Saturday’s scorcher, PG&E outages still started striking the Bay Area, and particularly the East Bay, starting at about 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
SF News Knock On Wood: State Officials Say Power Outages Unlikely This Summer The California Energy Commission says that this winter's downpours were enough of a boon to the state’s hydroelectric power plants and other new sources that we are supposedly unlikely to have power shortages and grid problems this summer.
east bay Large Power Outage Affects 50,000 People In East Bay and Leaves Alameda Drawbridge Stuck Half-Open The outage has also affected BART and AC Transit services, as well as stalled passengers going through Oakland Airport.
SF News Newsom Calls For Federal Investigation Into Out-Of-Control Energy Prices You’re not the only one whose PG&E bill has gone through the roof, and Governor Newsom is calling for a federal investigation into possible market manipulation with these crazy price hikes.
California PG&E Wants to Raise Your Monthly Bill by 16% Starting This Fall, Separate From This Winter's Sticker Shock Customers have likely seen and will continue to see significant increases in their bills this winter, to the tune of about a 32% spike.
SF News Judge Rules PG&E Can Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in 2020 Zogg Fire PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
SF News Man Dressed Like PG&E Employee Among Home Invaders Who Robbed Daly City Woman of Life Savings On Wednesday, a man donning a utility vest and claiming to work for Pacific Gas and Electric was among a group of home invaders who robbed a 70-year-old woman of her life savings and left her with minor injuries.
SF News Surprise, Surprise: PG&E Sued Over Alleged Responsibility for Mosquito Fire A lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company was recently filed with the San Francisco Superior Court that alleges the company was responsible for the Mosquito Fire. And, of course, the utility released a statement on Friday deflecting its implied liability.
SF News PG&E Will Pay You to Conserve Electricity During Peak Usage Hours — Starting Today Now you can score a little rebate for conserving electricity during the most brutal hours the California power grid experiences, as a Flex Alert rebate program kicks in today at 4 p.m.
